Richard Nixon resigned August 9, 1974... An era when there were consequences for presidents being corrupt criminals.
@petergleick Unfortunately, those days are long gone, Trump brags about his corruption and the MAGA cult enables him to continue to break the law without consequences. By 2028, the US democracy as we know it will be badly eroded. It's a slippery slope.
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You're both missing it. Trump's major value proposition is that he has a personality disorder wherein he has zero shame. He wouldn't resign because that would require shame. It would require him to care about doing right things. He doesn't.
But he does stand for consequences in our system, because our system doesn't require people to have shame or to decide for themselves whether they care. We impose that on them.
And that's why Trump is now a convicted felon, and it's why he has lost so many court cases and has screwed up so many negotiating sessions, and at any point the people that we elect to Congress could impeach him with very legitimate grounds for doing it.
He is suffering consequences for his misbehavior, because it's not up to him whether or not he does. But we should probably stop reelecting representatives who don't care to really unload on him as he deserves.
That's up to us though, not him.
@solicitor Trump will be impeached and removed if we elect congresspeople who will impeach and remove him.
It's up to us.
No, I think we voters are choosing this. So right, I don't think it's going to happen, I think we should do better, but I don't think we will.
But the point is, it's not up to Trump. We want this for some reason, so we are choosing it based on our congressional election choices.
@volkris @petergleick Republicans who control both chambers of the US Legislative will not impeach and remove Trump. Even, if democrats take control of the house after the forthcoming midterm congressional election, impeachment without removal by the Senate will not change the status quo.